Try a straightforward three-step strategy to help students get comfortable with exploring challenging reading assignments.

Dozens of states have passed laws directing a “science of reading” approach to helping struggling students. But who is ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Can a toddler really read? A researcher-dad breaks down how the science of reading made him a believer after trying simple, ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated ...

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Detroit — The little girl with purple barrettes at the end of her braids could hardly sit still in her chair, but Academic Interventionist Evelyn Smith pressed forward. "I want to focus on your ...

The bill’s passage marks a rare setback for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, although the legislation still needs ...

The Atlanta teachers were part of a mission trip to Nairobi, Kenya, to establish literacy clinics in the Kibera slums.